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Given the number of comments he's receiving on his articles, I think this counts as his theory's peer review.
originally posted by: TheBadCabbie
More water vapor means more clouds
It has for a long time seemed to me based on my knowledge of chemistry and physics that more carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere replacing the oxygen would translate into cooler temperatures.
I'm hypothesizing based on the principles of the behavior of a mixture of gases and liquids in a container. The earth's surface and atmosphere are a really big container, sure, but those basic principles will still apply, subject to local variations of course.
More water vapor means more clouds.
I take it that you believe he's full of hot air?
originally posted by: rnaa
a reply to: TheBadCabbie
Oxygen is not being replaced by CO2 or H20.
Your knowledge of chemistry and physics should be informing you that CO2 and H2O both contain oxygen, no oxygen is being replaced.
originally posted by: rnaa
a reply to: TheBadCabbie
The Earth's surface and atmosphere are not a container. The atmosphere is open to space - gravity does not make anything close to a perfect container.
originally posted by: rnaa
a reply to: TheBadCabbie
You get clouds, any clouds, when the local patch of atmosphere is 'saturated' - that is it cannot hold any more water vapor. That is called the 'dew point', the point of temperature and pressure when water comes out of solution and begins to form droplets. If you keep shoving more water into that local patch of atmosphere, or perhaps more importantly change the temperature or pressure, it comes back out in the form of rain.
Now, your knowledge of chemistry and physics, should tell you that as the atmosphere warms, its carrying capacity for water vapor increases. It can hold more water before it is saturated - so more water can be held in the atmosphere BEFORE clouds are formed. Put enough water into the local patch, and sure, clouds will form. Now when you change the temperature or pressure and the water comes out of the atmosphere as rains you have a lot more water to come out. And because it took longer for enough water to saturate the local patch of atmosphere, that patch has probably moved farther away than previously - so drought in one place and floods in another.
Your knowledge of chemistry and physics seems to be letting you down badly here. Perhaps you should start over at the beginning.
originally posted by: TheBadCabbie
originally posted by: rnaa
a reply to: TheBadCabbie
The Earth's surface and atmosphere are not a container. The atmosphere is open to space - gravity does not make anything close to a perfect container.
The earth's atmosphere is a container, albeit a large one that is subject to local variation.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: TheBadCabbie
Then explain why Hydrogen easily escapes Earth's atmosphere.